Product Description: The current policy for climate change prioritises mitigation over adaptation. The collected papers of Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard argue that although efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are still vital, the new policy paradigm should shift the priority to adaptation, with a special focus on disaster risk reduction...read more

Product Description: The transition from one millennium to another is not just a calendar date, but rather a complex historical process of qualitative changes in the development of human civilization. Such an understanding of history is especially important when one would like to assess the "double step" (a new century and a new millennium) being made at the advent of a new era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For many decades federal emergency and disaster policy and management has been an important but one of the least publicized and studied aspects of the national policy in the former Soviet Union. This book discusses major disasters which were unknown to anyone except in very limited official circles...read more